{"id":58282,"date":"2012-11-04T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T10:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=58282"},"modified":"2023-04-08T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T11:06:52","slug":"bulgaria-fm-bulgaria-supports-turkey-eu-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/11\/04\/bulgaria-fm-bulgaria-supports-turkey-eu-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria: FM: Bulgaria Supports Turkey EU Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58284\" title=\"photo_big_144757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo_big_144757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"180\" \/>Bulgaria supports Turkey&#8217;s eventual becoming a full member of the EU, said Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikolay Mladenov in one of the rare high-ranking Bulgarian statements on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bulgaria approves of Turkey&#8217;s accession to the European Unon,&#8221; said Mladenov in an interview for Darik Radio Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs acknowledged that the negotiation process is complicated<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are huge parts of Turkish legislation that still have to be harmonized with EU standards,&#8221; said Mladenov.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that Bulgaria is aware that other EU member states are not so favorable towards Turkey&#8217;s future accession.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attitudes and position in some member states could give ground for a halt in enlargement,&#8221; commented Mladenov.<\/p>\n<p>via Bulgaria: FM: Bulgaria Supports Turkey EU Membership &#8211; Novinite.com &#8211; Sofia News Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria supports Turkey&#8217;s eventual becoming a full member of the EU, said Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Nikolay Mladenov in one of the rare high-ranking Bulgarian statements on the matter. &#8220;Bulgaria approves of Turkey&#8217;s accession to the European Unon,&#8221; said Mladenov in an interview for Darik Radio Saturday. However, the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs acknowledged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":58284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,21],"tags":[7925],"class_list":["post-58282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-eu-members","tag-turkey-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}